Support and frame for drawers



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A. L. MOORE. SUPPORT AND FRAME FOB, DRAWERS.

No. 343,774. Patented. June 15, 1886.

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A. L. MOORE.

SUPPORT AND FRAME FOR DRAWERS.

No. 343,774. Patented June 15, 1886 *"UNITED STATES PATENT union.

ARTHUR L. MOORE, OF ENGLEWOOD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN BUTTONHOLE, OVERSEAMING AND SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT AND FRAME FOR DRAVVERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 34 dated June 1836- Application filed December 17, 1885. Serial No. 185,888. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR L. Moonn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Engle- Wood, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,

5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports and Frames for Drawers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make the supports or brackets and the skeleton or framework of drawers for sewing machines and similar articles where it is desirable to make the drawer strong in construction, neat in appearance, and supported from one side; and my invention consists in the features and do- I 5 tails of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figurelshows the bracket or support on which the drawer rests and moves. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the bottom of the drawer. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken through the longitudinal slot in the bracket and bottom of the drawer. Fig. 4 is the same with the drawer partially drawn out. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the frame-work or skeleton of the drawer. the box ready to be inserted into the skeleton, and Fig. 7 is a section of one of the corners of the drawer and frame-work.

In the drawings, Ais the support or bracket on which the drawer is placed. Bis the drawer. O are the screw-flanges by which the supporting-bracket is attached to the side of the machine or other article. D is the slotin 5 the bracket. E is astud on the same. F is the slot in the bottom of the drawer. G is a stud on the bottom of the drawer, and H the skeleton or frame-work in which the body of the drawer is placed.

In making my improved drawer-support I take an iron plate of the length and width to suit the length and width of the particular drawer which it is, intended to support, and provide screw-flanges or other means for prop- 5 erly attaching it to the side of the sewing-machine frame or other article of furniture in connection with which it is to be used.

I have preferred to show my improved drawer-support as attached to the side of an Fig. 6 is a perspective view of article, although it could of course be otherwise used with advantage. WVhen I attach it to the side, I provide screw-flanges, as shown in Fig. 1, as aifording the readiest means of securingitin position. I make a longitudinal slot in the supporting-plate extending almost the entire length, but stopping short of each end of the plate. At one end of this longitudinal slot I make a stud or projection to fit into a slot on the bottom of the drawer. I make a longitudinal slot in the bottom of the drawer, extending, preferably, only partially through the same, which slot corresponds in length and position to the slot in the supporting-plate, except that it is in the drawer. At the endof thisslot in the bottom of the drawer I make a stud or projection to fit into the slot in the supporting-plate. When the drawer is placed in position, the studiu the supportingplate projects into the slot in the bottom of the drawer, and the stud on the bottom of the drawer projects into the slot in the support ing-plate. Thus the two slots-the one in the supporting-plate and the one in the bottom of the drawerare brought close together, the one being above the other, and the studs on the supporting -plate and the bottom of the drawer fitting each into the slot of the other. I have preferred to make these slots and studs at the center of the supporting plate and at the center of the bottom of the drawer, respectively, although they need not be so made, but may be made the one toward the side of the supporting-plate and the other toward the side of the bottom of the drawer; but I make the stud in the supporting-plate fit into a slot in the bottom of the drawer which it supports, and the stud in the bottom of the drawer fit into a slot in the supporting-plate on whichit rests. In this way each bracket or supportingplate and each drawer supported by it 0 form the complete and entiremeans for sup porting and guiding the drawer and preventing its lateral displacement without the necessity of any assistance from any other plate or drawer. 5

In making the skeleton 0r frame-work for the drawer I cast it, preferably, out of iron, and preferably in one piece. The skeleton irons are made, as shown in the drawings, at right angles or from angle-irons, so as to embrace the sides and ends, and the sides, ends,

and bottom of the drawer at all of the joints In this way the body of the drawer will be greatly strengthened and its joints covered and protected by the angle irons composing the skeleton or frame.

I do not here claim this skeleton or frame for the drawer, but intend to make the same the subject of another and divisional applica-' 'tion; but

What I claim is The combination of a drawer bracket or supporting plate'provided with alongitudinal slot and a stud, and a drawer provided with a longitudinal slot and a stud in its bottom, the stud in the plate fitting and moving in the slot .in the bottom of the drawer, and the stud in the bottom of the drawer fitting and moving in the slot in the plate, whereby the drawer is supported and guided, substantially as described.

ARTHUR L. MOORE.

Witnesses:

EPHRAIM BANNING, FRANK L. DOUGLAS. 

